Weather permitting, trainer Todd Pletcher is scheduled to be at Keeneland on Sunday morning with John Velazquez and other New York-based jockeys for several important works, including one by Liam’s Map, a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Classic and the Dirt Mile.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Gamble’s Ghost, the runner-up in the Grade 2 Natalma Stakes, will return to Polytrack in search of her first graded stakes victory in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Mazarine Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine.
After an impressive 8 1/4-length victory going seven furlongs on Polytrack in her career debut Aug. 14, Gamble’s Ghost could not catch pacesetter Catch a Glimpse in the Natalma on turf Sept. 12, losing by five lengths. Trainer Josie Carroll said she was pleased with the effort from Gamble’s Ghost.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Minimums for the pick six bet offered on each day of the Breeders’ Cup event this year on Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland Racecourse will be $1, and the minimum for trifectas, pick threes, pick fours, pick fives, and super hi fives will be 50 cents each, Breeders’ Cup announced on Thursday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Though his 2-year-old crop has not yet shown itself to be as talented as those of years past, trainer Todd Pletcher still has a better-than-average chance to continue his recent stranglehold on the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes.
Pletcher will send out Ready Dancer on Saturday at Belmont Park in a seemingly wide-open renewal of the $500,000 Champagne, which awards its winner a fees-paid berth in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
When trainers Keith Desormeaux and Todd Pletcher last raced 2-year-olds against one another in a graded stakes, it was the Desormeaux-trained Exaggerator who came out on top, catching the Pletcher-trained favorite, Saratoga Mischief, in the closing yards to win the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Aug. 16.
On Saturday, the two trainers start horses at a different venue, Keeneland, and this time with even more at stake in the Grade 1, $500,000 Breeders’ Futurity, a Win and You’re In Challenge race for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Masochistic, the favorite for Saturday’s $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship, was ready for action on Thursday in the Santa Anita barn area.
Unfortunately, his first objective was attempting a kick in the direction of trainer Ron Ellis.
“He about kicked my head off,” Ellis said.
No one was hurt, but the incident served as a reminder to Ellis that Masochistic is ready for a race in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship at six furlongs. Masochistic can win his first Grade 1 race and his third stakes of 2015 on Saturday.
There aren’t any household names in the Grade 1 Frizette on Saturday at Belmont Park, but there is a lot of promise in the field of seven lightly raced 2-year-old fillies.
The $400,000 Frizette, a one-turn mile, is the final Win and You’re In for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland.
There are two stakes winners in the lineup, four last-out maiden winners, and a debut winner who most recently finished fourth in a Grade 1.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mostly out of respect for his dramatic triumph in the Arlington Million, The Pizza Man could go off as a slight favorite Saturday in the $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland.
But you sure can’t blame horseplayers for taking long looks elsewhere.
Not only is The Pizza Man turning back from the 1 1/4-mile Million to sharpen up for the 1 1/2-mile Breeders’ Cup Turf four weeks later, but more notably, the depth of the opposition in the Grade 1 Shadwell is extraordinary.
ELMONT, N.Y. – For bettors who have made him the favorite in all four of his races this year, the fact that Tonalist has just one win could be described as disappointing. For trainer Christophe Clement, who has watched Tonalist run some of the best races of his career even in defeat, another word comes to mind.
“I think he’s been a touch unlucky,” Clement said. “But the horse has not been disappointing. Every time the horse has run, I think he’s run nice races.”
The millionaire Undrafted is the most accomplished runner in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland, with his crowning accomplishment coming earlier this season when he scored a Group 1 victory at the Royal Ascot meeting in the Diamond Jubilee.